Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and broadminded, the other intolerant and narrow-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND BROADMINDED USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, et al reside in the other America!

Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Can You Keep A Secret?

The answer in a word NO!

I now firmly believe that SCOTUS has become
irrelevant, their rulings seem to be either very politically
motivated or just plain goofy. Take for instance what Justice
Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority vote: Kennedy
described DNA testing as a logical and more effective successor
to the longtime practice of fingerprinting criminal suspects.

“An individual’s identity is more than just his
name or Social Security number, and the government’s
interest in identification goes beyond ensuring that the
proper name is typed on the indictment,” Kennedy wrote.
“Identity has never been considered limited to the name
on the arrestee’s birth certificate. In fact, a name is
of little value compared to the real interest in
identification at stake when an individual is brought into
custody.” http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/supreme-court-upholds-dna-testing-felony-arrests-92140.html

To me, what Kennedy
and the rest of the Supremes who voted for this Police State
ruling neglected to address is DNA does not only identify an
individual it also identifies his or her whole being into
existence and discloses family and ancestral genes prone to
mental or physical syndromes.

Brave New World has
become somewhat of a reality and real soon this fictional tale
will be a way of life and our Republic will be no more. Why
isn’t there someone in power who can say ENOUGH ALREADY;
let’s keep some things sacred and revered like the privacy
of our genetic make-up (unless we volunteer it to be exposed or a warrant is issued to take it by force) for goodness sake... Not
SCOTUS that’s for sure. If no one speaks up, Democracy and
our Republic will someday just become a footnote in a history
book. thethinkingblue

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the police
practice of taking DNA samples from people who have been arrested
but not convicted of a crime, ruling that it amounts to the 21st
century version of fingerprinting.

The ruling was 5-4. Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative,
joined three of the court's more liberal members — Justices
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — in
dissenting.

Scalia, who typically sides with the court's conservatives,
expressed deep reservations about DNA swabbing at the oral
argument. The purpose of the practice, he acknowledged, was
"to catch the bad guys." But he added: "The Fourth
Amendment sometimes stands in the way."

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Well, as the story goes on to say, if it's just to catch the
"bad guys", then I'm ok with that.

But is that likely? What will they do with the information if you
are not charged or convicted? Keep it, like fingerprints?

What say you, ATS?

On the other hand, how many times have they picked up a
"suspect" in a crime, release him/her only later on to
find DNA linking them to the crime?
Meantime, they had committed more crimes.

Brave New World is a masterpiece of science
fiction. Huxley has imaginatively employed scientific facts
and theories to produce a classic of its kind. This novel is
in the tradition of Jules Verne, the French novelist who
wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and Journey
to the Center of the Earth, and H. G. Wells, the English
novelist who wrote War of the Worlds. Few writers of
science fiction have equaled Huxley's ability to make the
unbelievable seem believable and to make the improbable seem
probable. His own interest in science, its use and misuse,
its peril and its promise, contributed to the accuracy of his
presentation and to the horror of his envisioned Utopia.

Huxley qualifies as a social commentator by reason of his
diversified interest, his acquaintance with the great, the
near-great, and the not-so-great. His comments are always
perceptive, sometime biased, but never dull. He sees little
chance of mankind saving itself; he sees mankind inexorably
moving toward self-destruction. He sees himself as a voice
crying in the wilderness - but crying to no avail, for the
deaf refuse to hear.

The prophetic elements in Brave New World contribute
much to its continuing popularity because year by year we see
more and more of Huxley's fantasy becoming reality. Huxley
himself later commented that we are moving in the direction
of this Utopia much more rapidly than anyone could have
imagined. At the time the novel was written only a
comparatively few research scientists were concerned with
conditioning, the importance of heredity and environment, and
the effect of chemical imbalance on physical and mental
development. Today, governments, educational institutions,
and industries are exploiting the results of research in
these areas. Read more: http://www.huxley.net/studyaid/

About Me

Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and
free-thinking, the other intolerant and close-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND FREE-THINKING USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh et al reside in the intolerant America!